Hamas: US Qods bid provocation against all Muslims

The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has strongly condemned a recent decision by the United States to move its embassy to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds in May, describing the move as “provocative” for all Muslim and Arab nations.

“The measure to relocate the US embassy concurrent with the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), when hundreds of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homeland by Israeli regime forces back in 1948, is a naked [act of] aggression against the Palestinian nation,” the Hamas spokesman, Abdullatif al-Qanou, told Press TV in an exclusive interview in Gaza City on Saturday.

He added, “It is also a provocative move against all Muslims and Arabs, and a clear attack against sites revered by both Muslims and Christians. Hamas believes that such a decision would fail to change the status quo of al-Quds.”

Qanou held the US administration and the Israeli regime “fully responsible for any repercussions of the recent unjust and racist decision against al-Quds” and criticized Washington’s hostile moves and schemes to “suffocate the Palestinian cause.”

“We are warning against a tremendous explosion in the Middle East region, which will target the occupying Israeli regime. We are calling on all Muslim nations to confront Israel and to stop such decisions,” the Hamas spokesman pointed out.

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Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority spokesman Yousef al-Mahmoud has described the US decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds as “offensive to the Palestinian and Arab nations, and a deliberate attempt to hurt their feelings.”

“The move constitutes a clear and blatant violation of the United Nations resolutions, and all humanitarian and international law,” Mahmoud said.

He added, “(US President Donald) Trump awarded our Arab holy city, which would be the capital of a future independent Palestinian state, to others. This step is unprecedented, and could only be explained through the arrogance of occupation and colonialism.”